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I have a lot of issues with the Ive era and the Mac... but every iPhone he designed was a banger. I think the 12-14 era is the only era of iPhones I thought were bad and that was after him.

I suppose the iPhone 6 was bendable but that was a hardware engineering issue as shown by the same form factor not being bendable for the 6s through 8.

The concerning thing for the EU should be that this valuable firm had no European capital trying to buy it. The Dutch have protected their sovereignty today while decreasing the incentive for the next entrepreneur to make something on European shores. Probably the best choice but doesn't change the structural problem.

You mean Chrome would have pushed it, Apple would have filibustered it by refusing to comment (via lack of investment in the WebKit team), and then gullible folks on the internet would defer to them.

(I will note that Apple seems to have upped WebKit investment this decade since their regulatory problems started in earnest - so it's possible this would end differently today)

Your point is taken but we've turned lead into gold: https://home.cern/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc/

I'm sure he copied it from somewhere but this reminds me of Paolini's elves in Eragon singing (magicking) trees to their desired shape.

I feel like "find me the shirt from the Instagram post" (which is what's depicted in the ad) is a use case that most people will love.

The lumping together of Typescript with Python is a mistake. Typescript is much faster (mostly due to engine investment), is much saner, has more expressive types, and generally has better ergonomics for the backend than Python.

I did and I read it previously. It has not changed my interpretation that the Zig project would decline issues mostly generated by LLMs due to their stated policy saying so.

If you’re saying their philosophy is compatible with LLM issues, I agree and I think they should change their policy to reflect that.

Quoting from https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-pol...:

> Strict No LLM / No AI Policy

> No LLMs for issues.

> No LLMs for pull requests.

> No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely on others to have their own translation tools of choice to interpret your words.

If they would accept issues filed by AI or written by AI, they should edit their policy to say that.

Next decade seems possibly false - if Intel starts getting deals and commitments now, it takes them about half a decade to build a fab. Agree it seems unlikely though.

Yeah but Zig essentially has till Mythos releases (and arguably less time) to fix their policy. OSS that doesn't take LLM security reports at that point is a liability.

Reading this article in the context of the Zig folks refusing to even consider LLM-generated bugs certainly shapes my perspective on what technologies will be in my toolchain.

The value generation is for passive observers: it is theoretically more informative to be told that there is a y% chance of x from someone with a financial incentive to be right.

(also, we allow plenty of zero and negative sum interactions in society. I don't know why this is special.)

I understand the hostility to them getting into sports betting since that seems to trigger a particular unhealthy impulse in young men but your anger should be first directed at the companies that are 100% sports betting (DraftKings and their ilk). I don't think the normal things prediction markets do subject young men to the same temptations.

I don't think it's actually that hard - 5 minutes of skimming on Reddit will do a lot. You can also usually see Wirecutter's recommendations (even if they paywall the full article). People just don't care upfront but complain later.

The melodrama of this article really rubs me the wrong way, especially when some of the brands they mention do still make good backpacks (like The North Face). The author acknowledges that with "it's a deliberate segmentation" strategy... which is just another way of saying that they make stuff at all price points.

> it doesn't generate any real tax revenue

This is a choice the local government can make. You can read Loudon County's (us-east-1 + everything else) explaining what it does with the data center revenue it gets https://www.loudoun.gov/6188/Data-Centers-in-Loudoun-County.

> it increases electricity costs for the region

Also a choice the local government can make! I don't know about this specific case but I suspect we'll see local governments get more sophisticated when negotiating with tech companies.

Anthropic responded: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829#issue...

They changed the terms going forward so you’re changing your behavior going forward? Nobody but the psychos you’re making up would think you’re out of line here. They’re not required to offer the same product forever and you’re not required to pay forever.

If you are buying GPUs today, they really are massively cheaper than other clouds.

> Recently, only 36% of suspicious activity reports from US companies originated from the surveillance of private messages anyway.

I don't have many opinions on this but this sort of lazy logic would make me nervous. 36% is not a small number and that's before the folks doing this activity find out that private message is less patrolled.

Even if you could fix egregious cases like directly sharing location, I'm pretty sure any access to the internet could be compromised via clever use of data brokers.

I think most computer users dislike this but I see a ton of normal folks do this, they don't have the same conceptual boundaries folks on this site do (myself included).

This isn't incompatible with the agent placing the purchase. I already let Claude Code do _most_ of what it wants but make it ask permission before sending a message on Slack. An LLM having the capability to do X is not incompatible with it being deterministically forced to seek permission to do X.

China is likely where it would come from - ARM and x86 are owned by Western companies.

This is correct which will incentivize the constructions of private lots etc (assuming the people you mentioned value their time more than the $ those lots cost). I don't see any reason you can't trust markets to address the supply of a commodity product.

If a developer builds in a way such that the demand for street parking outstrips supply, the street parking still has a cost, that cost is just expressed in time to find a spot, not dollars like you're suggesting. People unwilling to pay that time cost will find paid lots or not have a car (which is basically the dynamic in my building: people either pay $450 a month for a spot or they spend 10-15 minutes looking for a free street spot).

In practice, of course, existing residents feel entitled to "their" street parking and get mad when a new building with new people contending for those spots is built but there's no logical reason to preference residents who have previously lived there. This is where politics rears its head though.

Google Play - at least on tablets - makes ads vs not ads much clearer and, if you're searching for one app very obviously (like "Kindle") puts that above the ads.

Companies good at selling and distributing ads have the confidence to not be annoying about them.

The reason we focus on the OEM more than the pilots is that Boeing getting its act together (or being regulated to do so) is more scalable than every pilot in the world becoming more skilled. Individually blaming pilots isn't effective, regardless of whether you're morally for or against it.

I don't think anyone really disputes what should be done when an LLM violates copyright in a way that would be a violation if a human did it.

Questions about LLMs are primarily about whether it's legal for them to do something that would be legal for a human to do and secondarily about the technical feasibility of policing them at all.